Tom Cruise showed off his impressive biceps as he flew a helicopter into London on Wednesday. 

The Mission Impossible star touched down in the capital for a screening for the highly-anticipated seventh installment of Mission Impossible. 

Tom has clearly been working out as he displayed his muscular physique in a tight fitting navy Falconeri polo T-shirt. 

He appeared in high spirits as he gave a wave upon landing and chatted to his fellow pilot. 

Dressed for the sunny weather, Tom rocked his signature aviator shades and denim jeans. 

Top Guns! Tom Cruise showed off his impressive biceps as he flew a helicopter into London on Wednesday

Landed: The Mission Impossible star touched down in the capital for a screening for the highly-anticipated seventh installment of Mission Impossible

Pilot: The Top Gun star is a licensed pilot and has been since 1994. The Hollywood heavyweight is known for taking on many of his own stunts in films

The Top Gun star is a licensed pilot and has been since 1994. The Hollywood heavyweight is known for taking on many of his own stunts in films. 

Tom travelled light carrying just a rucksack and blue jacket as he emerged from the aircraft and headed to an awaiting car. 

He headed across to Soho Square where he joined Hayley Atwell. 

Hayley recently quashed rumours the pair were romantically involved while shooting Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One in the May-June issue of Country & Town House.

‘I felt like if I ever was worried about it, I could talk to him [Tom],’ the newly-engaged star said of the dating rumours.

‘And I know that he would’ve said, “People say whatever they want to say, but you know who you are, I know who I am and I want you to feel safe in this environment.”‘

She went on to describe their relationship as a form of ‘platonic love’, which she feels is sometimes under-represented.

‘And my love for Tom, my love for the process of this [Mission], and also the people who they keep very close to them and who are very present on set, has a wholesomeness to it. That for me, I just found so beautiful, so, yeah, I can freely say ‘I love this group of people,’ Atwell admitted.

Impressive: Tom has clearly been working out as he displayed his muscular physique in a tight fitting navy polo T-shirt

Mission complete: He was accompanied by airport staff as he made his way across the landing pad 

Happy: Tom appeared in high spirits as he gave a wave and chatted to his fellow pilot after chartering the helicopter

Touch down: Tom focused as he landed the helicopter 

Light traveller: Tom travelled light carrying just a rucksack and blue jacket as he emerged from the aircraft and headed to an awaiting car

Screening: He headed across to Soho Square where he joined Hayley Atwell

‘Platonic’: Hayley recently quashed rumours the pair were romantically involved while shooting Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (pictured) 

Ahead of the interview, the Captain America: The First Avenger star announced she is engaged to actor boyfriend Ned Wolfgang Kelly.

As for Cruise, he has been at the forefront of the Hollywood A-list since the 1980s that was solidified with roles in Risky Business (1983), All the Right Moves (1983), Top Gun (1986), Rain Man (1988), and Born On The Fourth of July (1989).

He has since gone on to become one of the most bankable movie stars over the course of the next four decades with such films as A Few Good Men (1992), Jerry Maguire (1996), Minority Report (2002), War Of The Worlds (2005), Top Gun: Maverick (2022), along with the Mission: Impossible films that began in 1996.

Much has been made of Tom’s insistence on real flying scenes, with no CGI work. He previously said in numerous interviews that he refused to even talk about a Top Gun sequel unless they flew in real planes.

He said at the time: ‘For years, people had said, “Can’t you shoot [the movie] with CGI?'”And I always said, “No. That’s not the experience”. I said, “I need to find the right story. And we’re going to need the right team. This movie is like trying to hit a bullet with a bullet. I’m not playing.” 

Cruise learned to fly when he was 31 and made The Firm with director Sydney Pollack. 

When the movie wrapped Pollack gave him a gift of flying lessons, saying: ‘You got to learn how to fly now, or you’re never going to do it. I know it’s one of your passions – you gotta go do it. It’s gonna take you forever to do this…’ 

Six weeks later he took Pollack to dinner and told him that he had learned to fly. He then began a ‘really fun game’ with the director, who told him that passing the IFR rating would take him years.

Cruise said: ‘A little while later, I took him to dinner… And we’re eating and then at the end I say, ‘I’m going to pay the bill’ and I opened my wallet and put it on the table as I got my cash out, and he looked down at my wallet and there was my IFR license in it. He said, ‘You ****r! What are you doing?’ 

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, which also stars Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby and Henry Czerny, is now out in the UK and will hit theaters in the U.S. on on July 12.

The sequel, Dead Reckoning Part Two, is scheduled to make its premiere in theaters on June 28, 2024.

Skilled: Cruise learned to fly when he was 31 and made The Firm with director Sydney Pollack